Re: Solaris vs. Linux sun vs intel ???

Everyone mentions IO bandwith, performance and prices here, but I always prefer to compare such different systems in terms of TCO. (total cost of ownership). It is true that the initial investment that has to be made for the sun/solaris platform is much bigger, no doubt. However these costs are most of the time only a fraction of the total cost a company has to spend in order to get a system working or (even more important) keep it working. My experience is that the information and support available for Oracle on linux/intel platforms is hard to find, and most of the time very specific to a certain distro, kernel, etc. So the total cost for the maintenance of these machines is MUCH higher than for Oracle on the sun/solaris platform. Keep in mind that Oracle themselves use sun/solaris as their development environment (!), and a lot of support concerning Oracle and Sun hardware is widely available and very specific. Currently we are running 32 databases on linux, and we're in the process of migrating *all* of them to Sun enterprise 2500's. After carefully determining our TCO of the linux boxes, we've come to the conclusion that maintenance costs are actually much lower for the sun/solaris platform (over a 5yr period)...

HTH,

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> Hi all,

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> Does anyone have any information on Oracle on Linux/intel as compared to

> unix(Solaris/sun)?  Or would you know where I could get this sort of

> information?  We are running smoothly in development using a small sun

> machine but IT wants to look into switching to Linux on intel machines

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> there pitfalls?

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> Help is appreciated,

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> S

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